Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1887-11-17
The Arrow Steamship Company.

The Arrow Steamship Company.
To.day's New York Herald devote5 two
columns to the affairs OF the Arrow Steam
ship Company. and is still positive that the
scheme has collapsed. W. II. Clarkson, secre-
tary of the company, publishes card in the
Herald denying that he told the reporter
the company had sold so, 600 shares of stock.
He also says be never implied that the pro.
nosed steamer was in process OF construction.
The affairs of the company, he asserts, are
open TO the fullest investigation, the plans
for the building OF the steamer being, In big
opinion, feasible, and says the vessel will
be built iuet as the necessary money is raised,
part OF which, he thinks, will be realized
from the proprietor of the Herald Tor alleg'
ed libel.
The Herald is defiant and persists in as
serting that the ventilation given the affsirs
of the company by that paper Tuesday was
lust, and says the officers Of the company
have been endeavoring to get what it calls
their "quack medicine putfery" into the
Herald for a year past According to the
Herald about $4,000 worth Of Arrow Steam
shin stock has been sold around the town OF
Dover, n. ].
Colonel Casssld, Vice President OF the
comrany, is extremely indignant at the ex
ncs,ires in the Herald When asked by
reporter how much money had been raised,
the Colonel replied 10000
We've only sold about $40. 600 or $4,000
worth of stock"
"Toen that is all the money you have
raised ?"
YES that % all"
Mr.. Fryer publishes the following card in
The Herald
To the editor of the Ncw YORK. Herald:
In reference 10 your publications In re-
gard to The Arrow Steamship Company may
be permitted TO say few words in my
own defence?
In the first place l have never received
one dollar from the said Company for salary
since the same was organized and have 10
addition loaned the Company considerable
money from time TO time as books oil Inc
Company will show. / will, at meeting
of The Board of Trustees to morrow, make
motion to invite you and others to thor
oughy investigate our mode of ship build
ing together with cur plans of doing busl-
ness and all other matters in connection
with our enterprise that may be OF interest,"
10 you or the public. In this connection l
deny the allegations of Mr.. Lancaster In
respect to his stated interviews with me, ex
cept so far as they related 10 honorable
means for trying TO raise the money Tor
building the Pocahonas, model of which
IL pow in this city and may be used to dem
onstrate the displacement Of that proposed
) vessel, and at the same time show the er'
rors of repeated calculations by other per-
sons.
II can do more 10 correct the evils OF o
prejudged enterprise such as sou have at
lacked here, Please direct me 10 your paper
E tomorrow and will consider it proper
act upon your part.
ROBERT NJ. FRYER.
R. S. Widdicombe, the attorney for the
company, in an interview with report
er Of Washington paper of to Gay,
said that not q dollar of stcck' was
held by any resident of Baltimore. In
Washington, exclusive Of the stock held by
himself, which amougts to l1000, there is
but 81 600 OF the STOCK of the company held,
OF which MIR. Carl Petersen has $500. But
one resident OF Alexandria, Mr. Lewis Nc
Kenzle, h5lds stock, and he has but ten
shares, valued at 500. We have expended 10
Alexandria over $40 900 since last June, and
are paving out at the rate Of 81 900 month
to residents of that city for labor performed
We have purchased a water front for site
we have had twenty five men constantly
employed; we have beeu building docks
and srinsers, and have constructed 400 feet
of sea wall. The work is all underground
r and is necessary to sustain the immense
+ weight of the vessel during lis construction
We have built ways in which the keel of the
vessel will be laid. The contracts for the
iron bave already been given, and are now
10 the hands Of Coates & Co, Of Locust
Point, Md We are now waiting for th7
building Of punching machine. but every
thing else is in readiness. aud when that
machine is completed the work will be
sent along at rush, and the Pocahontes
I expect, will be completed by next June,
In the construction of the frat vessel we
expect to employ some 200 expert mechan'
les When the first ship is completed four
> additional vessels will be put on the ways.
and we have already made arrangements
for their construction.
People 10 this city will naturally take ex'
! captions to some of Mr.. Widdicombe'
statements. For instance, the company
? have purchased no river front here, and he
entire outlay OF the company since they
have been local ed in thi, city, it is estimated
! will not exceed 10000, nor have any mer
heen employ ed in getting ready the premi
ses for the construction OF the steamer foi
J several months past.
"And I'm eighty years old TO day." the
old man said. What do you consider the
cause Of your longevity asks a curious